Digital Media Cards Are Not All Created Equal
A few months back I had the good fortune to meet Peter Liebmann from SanDisk. We met on the Mentor Series Oregon Trek and during a couple of lengthy bus rides he shared with me and all the Trekkers great information about digital media cards. I was so impressed with… Read More »
Win A Free Trip to See Polar Bears: PBI’s My Planet My Part Contest
A new online community from Polar Bears International is here! My Planet My Part is a web community offering inspiration and information on how everyone can reduce their carbon footprint to help save polar bears and their arctic habitat. Cool features at My Planet My Part: Live HD video of… Read More »
Support Embedded Metadata/Contact Information Manifesto
I was recently made aware of a great new website called Pro-Imaging. It has a lot of good information on all things for professionals as well as advanced amateurs and even the up-and-coming photo enthusiasts. It’s never too early to learn about the need to retain the rights to your… Read More »
Update on Thompson/Reuters Stripping Metadata
Greetings Everyone, I’ve been off the grid for a few weeks and recently contacted my editor at Reuters requesting more info on how and why metadata is stripped from an image. Here is her response. Hard to believe but true. I’m hopeful we can push this issue. Anyone with any… Read More »
Fred Kurtz Shows The Beauty of Blurb Books
One of our favorite people, Fred Kurtz, who has traveled the world with us, recently sent me a link to a book he’s published on trains. Fred and his wife Kathy are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and Fred loves photography. He’s fairly new to the game… Read More »
Shooting Nikon’s New D600 in Brazil
Tanya and I just finished our first two week shoot in the wilds of the Pantanal of Brazil. I was shooting the D4 and the new D800 on this first trip. I’m still processing the images so I don’t have anything to share, but it was so exhilarating to be… Read More »
Record Arctic Ice Melt – Support the Arctic Documentary Project.
A recent article discusses the record ice melt seen in the arctic this summer. Thankfully the scientists think the melting is finished for this year since fall is approaching and in past years melting begins to reverse about this time, however, this is just another sign of things to come.… Read More »
Quick, Easy, Free! Video Editing on the Mac With Quicktime
Many people often ask what program I use to edit my movies. Most of the time it’s Apple’s iMovie, and soon I plan to move to Apple’s Final Cut Pro X. Not sure if that will replace iMovie but we shall see. iMovie is so powerful and easy. Its main… Read More »
Major Publication Wants Free Photos Yet Charges $155,000.00 For One Ad
I just received an email from a good friend, who has requested to remain anonymous. He’s an enthusiastic photographer with a day job as an attorney and his email highlighted a situation he recently ran into with Travel and Leisure magazine. We’ll call my friend and fellow photographer Igor, only… Read More »
Reuters Strips All Metadata From Your Photos
Has anyone else noticed that all metadata is removed from images when sent out via Thompson/Reuters wire service? Take a look for yourself by following the link to a recent story they published of mine. Click on one of the four images and drag it to your desktop, then open… Read More »